front 1 Pharisees | back 1 very well respected political and religious |
front 2 Sadducees | back 2 very political and very wealthy |
front 3 Essenes | back 3 extremely religious and withdrew from society |
front 4 Scribes | back 4 writers and interpreters of the law |
front 5 Zealots | back 5 revolutionaries that wanted to fight the Romans for freedom |
front 6 Galilee | back 6 poor second class citizens |
front 7 Samaria | back 7 hated, different religious practices |
front 8 Judea | back 8 home to the mainline Jew center of politics and religion |
front 9 Idumea | back 9 forced to accept Judaism |
front 10 Herod the Great | back 10 cruel Jewish king of Judea, ordered the "slaughter of the innocents". |
front 11 Alexander the Great | back 11 Greek emperor who controlled Palestine |
front 12 Pontius Pilate | back 12 5th procurator of Judea |
front 13 Herod Antipas | back 13 Son of Herod the Great...responsible for beheading of John the Baptist |